Talking About the Weather

Matt Ridley writes in The Wall Street Journal about the dangers of confirmation bias in climate science. He defines confirmation bias as "the tendency to behave like a defense attorney rather than a judge when assessing a theory in science." I particularly enjoyed this comment:

The reporting of climate in the media is full of confirmation bias. Hot summers (in the U.S.) or wet ones (in the U.K.) are invoked as support for climate alarmism, whereas cold winters are dismissed as weather. 

Weather varies because that's how it behaves; we have warm and cold winters, hot and mild summers, droughts and monsoons - always have. BTW, no subscription is required to read this WSJ column.